Skykomish, Washington
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Snoqualmie Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98288. It stands on Malaney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Skykomish quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.
On record in Skykomish
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Great Northern Depotlisted 1997
Maloney's General Storelisted 1997- Skykomish Historic Commercial Districtlisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresSkykomish fell from 198 to 161 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 198 | |
| 2020 | 161 | -37 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1902 USGS Skykomish quadrangle1:125000
- 1905 USGS Skykomish quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Skykomish quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Skykomish River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
52 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Skykomish between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 20 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | FOSS RIVER 2 |
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | BUCKET |
| 28 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 2 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | SKYKOMISH |
| 18 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | LOWE |
| 18 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | not named |
| 14 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SKY |
| 11 September 2017 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ALPINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 75 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Skykomish: 37 unknowns, 13 occurrences, 13 past producers, 12 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akishin Claim | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Baring | Chromium | Unknown | ||
| Beckler River Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Black Dike Prospect | Copper, Iron | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Magnetite, Pyrite | |
| Gold Mountain Prospect | Antimony, Gold, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | 1900 | |
| Grand Central | Gold, Antimony | Occurrence | Pyrite, Stibnite | |
| Great Republic | Antimony, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Kimball | Gold, Silver, Antimony | Prospect | ||
| King and Kinney | Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Lynn Prospect | Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Prospect |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller River | 2.2 miles | 16 | |
| Grotto | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Baring | 8.0 miles | 16 | |
| Nordrum (historical) | 13.9 miles | 18 | |
| Denny Creek | 20.9 miles | 16 | |
| Rockdale | 22.4 miles | 16 | |
| Ernies Grove | 23.7 miles | 16 | |
| Bandera | 24.1 miles | 13 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Skykomish | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1508141 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1525897. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.




